TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Bedroom Bedlam

Activity Type Introduction

Grammar Game: In this There is and There are game, students make There is/
matching (pair work) are... statements about a bedroom picture. This activity also
covers prepositions of place and furniture vocabulary.

Focus Procedure
There is/are
Divide the students into pairs.
Prepositions of place
Give each student a bedroom picture and each pair a set of
Furniture sentence cards.

Tell the students to place the bedroom picture face-up on the

Aim table in front of them and to shuffle the cards and spread them
out face-down.
To make There is/are...
sentences about a
Next, explain that the students are going to play a card game
bedroom picture.
where they make There is/are... sentences that describe the
bedroom in the picture.
Preparation
Students take it in turns to turn over three cards.
Make one copy of the
pictures and cards for If the words on the three cards go together to form a true sentence
each pair of students and about the picture, the student reads the sentence aloud, places
cut as indicated. the three-card sentence under their picture and scores a point.

If the three cards don't make a true sentence, the cards are
Level turned back over, keeping them in the same place.
Elementary (A1-A2)
The game continues until all the sentences have been completed
or no more sentences can be made.
Time
The student with the most points at the end of the game is the
20 minutes winner.

Afterwards, review the sentences with the class.

The correct answers can be seen on the uncut worksheet. Some

sentences may vary.

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Sentence cards

There is a bed under the window.

There are two cups on the shelf.

There are some notes on the board.

There is a speaker on the floor.

There are some papers on the wall.

There is a chair next to the speaker.

There are shelves above the bed.

There is a phone on the chair.

There are some pencils in a cup on the shelf.

There are books on the shelves.

There is a flower pot on the shelf.

There is a laptop on the bed.

There are some papers on the floor.

There is a towel on the chair.

There is a fan next to the bed.

There is a pencil on the papers.

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